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RyokoTK posted:Those commentators and analysts are worked to death, so after a massive gong show like Sao Paulo on top of everything else I can't exactly blame the dude. No poo poo. The 10+ hours they loving sit up there to bullshit about games and all of the loving travel they do. I know sadokist was mentioning that he had arrived at like 3am some place. Had to be up at ~9am to cast poo poo. Worked all day and then had to bounce that night to sleep on a plane to cast again at some other event. It's crazy the time the spend traveling.
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I did that type of work before and it does indeed suck. You have to keep the same energy all the time. I was a DJ so I'd do remotes and poo poo. Like on location or whatever. Wake up an hour before the show if it was in a hotel lobby, earlier if we had to drive. Do the show for hours with no real break because radio shows like this are designed to be less music, more interaction and the same fuckin energy. Not to mention you have to find ways to interest the audience talking about the same loving things over and over. Which is more interesting? "Coming up next, this band won best new band and worst new band in the same competition. You'll find out who after the break." Or "You know the band, you know the song! Sing a long, its Stone Temple Pilots. The above is true by the way. 1994 Rolling Stones (best = fans, worst = critics) The pay sucks, you really do have to enjoy what you are doing because pay is super bad. Not to mention there is a very real possibility that the hosts don't like each other. I can't remember how many times I'd get paired with someone I had no energy with and loathed. Like really wanted to put my fist in his dumb mouth. His energy was like he mainlined red bull enemas all day. I couldn't compete, or get a word in edge wise. So yeah, hats off to the bull and all that. And don't forget, when an announcer does something cringy, we all have done it, they are just more public about it. Also we have no dignity.
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Oct 31, 2016 19:40
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RyokoTK posted:Those commentators and analysts are worked to death, so after a massive gong show like Sao Paulo on top of everything else I can't exactly blame the dude. Machine was one of the best things esl had going for them, and they worked him to a nub. Their loss. I'm amazed at how incredibly cheery he managed to be at all times. Really fun to watch with him hosting.
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Oct 31, 2016 21:16
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Oh wow the "Machine got fired" meme finally came true (I'm aware he didn't actually get fired) Yeah, he was loving awesome. Is there anything we can do as fans to make sure we see him more at future events??
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Oct 31, 2016 21:29
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A TURGID FATSO posted:Oh, don't worry. You'll be told what your greatest weaknesses are at this point, but even without watching your demo I'm going to say work on your aim, DM a shitload, then DM some more, watch demos, play comp games, DM some more, work on crosshair placement, then DM some more. Will do! Not sure which nights I'll be free yet.
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New Zealand can eat me posted:Oh wow the "Machine got fired" meme finally came true (I'm aware he didn't actually get fired) hes probably going to get hired a bunch because he's the best at hosting, don't worry
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Oct 31, 2016 22:34
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Machine was probably underpaid and overworked at ESL, but yeah it'd be nice to see him at MLG events in the near future 
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Oct 31, 2016 22:36
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He's just going full freelance to 1) increase his pay grade 2) choose what events to actually attend. It's not like there's a lot of competent competition on the desk host front.
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Oct 31, 2016 22:38
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Well there's always Richard "The Strangler" Lewis
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Oct 31, 2016 23:08
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So I missed the C9/SK game yesterday. Just watched it.
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fennesz posted:So I missed the C9/SK game yesterday. Just watched it. It was very good except for the last map
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I was absolutely floored just how one sided map 3 was. SK looked extremely tilted. The only two rounds they won first half were huge clutch plays from cold and Fallen too. Scary stuff for sure.
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fennesz posted:I was absolutely floored just how one sided map 3 was. SK looked extremely tilted. I ain't scared and i welcome c9's domination, up until they fail to qualify for the major again
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Nov 1, 2016 15:33
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What's up with the minimap? Sometimes you clearly spot someone for a full second and they don't show up on minimap, other times you barely get a glimpse of someone you don't even notice behind a bunch of cover and smoke, and they do show up 
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Nov 1, 2016 16:18
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Elman posted:What's up with the minimap? Sometimes you clearly spot someone for a full second and they don't show up on minimap, other times you barely get a glimpse of someone you don't even notice behind a bunch of cover and smoke, and they do show up Pretty sure it's always been garbage. Fortunately, you don't need to look at your minimap if you can see an enemy so it doesn't matter.
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Nov 1, 2016 16:24
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Minimap is important but you shouldn't be focusing on it.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:14
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If you buy a Zeus and a kit, it acts as a radar jammer that makes you not show up as easily
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Nov 1, 2016 17:15
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What the goddamn poo poo is this "temporary cooldown" from competitive mode why am I being punished for winning video games
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Nov 1, 2016 18:54
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drunken officeparty posted:What the goddamn poo poo is this "temporary cooldown" from competitive mode why am I being punished for winning video games Sounds like something a smurf would say. Get in smurf jail until you've served your time.
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Nov 1, 2016 18:57
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Jeza posted:Pretty sure it's always been garbage. Fortunately, you don't need to look at your minimap if you can see an enemy so it doesn't matter. Minimap is super useful for playing MM when your teammates don't bother making callouts when they see someone. Which is frequent at GN3.
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Nov 1, 2016 19:07
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MMF Freeway posted:Sounds like something a smurf would say. Get in smurf jail until you've served your time. I haven't even played csgo since it came out in 1776 and I just wanted to shoot some dudes but apparently Gabe thinks otherwise
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Nov 1, 2016 19:11
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You can always facetime demo and 1v1 rock paper scissors from smurf jail
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Nov 1, 2016 19:53
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Crimson posted:Minimap is super useful for playing MM when your teammates don't bother making callouts when they see someone. Which is frequent at GN3. Oh yeah, the map is super useful. What I mean is that it's recognition when you're looking at someone has always been bizarrely irregular, but that shouldn't matter because you're looking at them already, so you don't need a map to find that out.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:25
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drunken officeparty posted:What the goddamn poo poo is this "temporary cooldown" from competitive mode why am I being punished for winning video games Go play casual or some other game mode, or play on a community server or on esea/CEVO/faceit. You are not being punished for winning, you are running into a measure put into place to prevent the rampant abuse of the official valve ranked matchmaking system by people who buy multiple accounts to stomp on lower ranked players rather than face a challenge.
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Jeza posted:Oh yeah, the map is super useful. What I mean is that it's recognition when you're looking at someone has always been bizarrely irregular, but that shouldn't matter because you're looking at them already, so you don't need a map to find that out. Well, the issue I think he's bringing up is "I/teammate see enemy, but it does not show on minimap so team does not know" which is a valid concern when people don't have mics etc.
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MF_James posted:Well, the issue I think he's bringing up is "I/teammate see enemy, but it does not show on minimap so team does not know" which is a valid concern when people don't have mics etc. Pretty sure they always appear on the map, just not immediately as you see them. And only sometimes. But maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick.
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surc posted:Go play casual or some other game mode, or play on a community server or on esea/CEVO/faceit. That is the Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard
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https://gfycat.com/FancyMindlessHyena
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You never saw what low ranked games were like before they implemented it. Every second game had 1-2 guys straight destroying the newbies because they kept putting csgo on sale for five euros. The gap between an experienced half decent players and new/bad players is utterly gigantic and when a game takes 30-45 minutes to play out on average you can make people absolutely miserable. While smurfing still happens, I have 2 fun accounts, its nothing like the plague it was back in the day.
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Goofballs posted:You never saw what low ranked games were like before they implemented it. Every second game had 1-2 guys straight destroying the newbies because they kept putting csgo on sale for five euros. The gap between an experienced half decent players and new/bad players is utterly gigantic and when a game takes 30-45 minutes to play out on average you can make people absolutely miserable. While smurfing still happens, I have 2 fun accounts, its nothing like the plague it was back in the day. Prime is really the best thing they've done so far.
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I was super skeptical of prime at first but it's really lowered the amount of smurfs I encounter on a regular basis. That said I can't imagine what grinding those non-prime games is like for new players now that all the smurfs are condensed in there.
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Their poorly thought out anti-smurfing system is humorous because when I play on my silver 1 alt with lower ranked friends, almost every game single game we queue up has 50hrs or less obvious smurfs. So in the end, the ranks don't matter, it always comes down to a couple people wiping out each others teams and then dueling. I've realized now that because of this, there's no point in having a smurf. Your friends won't get easier games if you're on a lower ranked account. It sucks but that's how it works when you make a competitive video game with ranks. It'll never change unless you get super intrusive and link it to mac addresses or something. Phone numbers? lol get real
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drunken officeparty posted:That is the Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard The Venn diagram of people who bitch about this, and people who the CS community is probably better off without, looks surprisingly like a single circle.
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Goofballs posted:You never saw what low ranked games were like before they implemented it. Every second game had 1-2 guys straight destroying the newbies because they kept putting csgo on sale for five euros. The gap between an experienced half decent players and new/bad players is utterly gigantic and when a game takes 30-45 minutes to play out on average you can make people absolutely miserable. While smurfing still happens, I have 2 fun accounts, its nothing like the plague it was back in the day. I play a lot of Dota which doesn't even have the $5 barrier to making a new account and yeah people smurf but like it's not that huge of an issue? The detection algorithm there is super good and if you dominate on an account it will (invisibily) detect you within 2-5 games. Maybe the CSGO people should wheel their wheelie desks over and ask for help.
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drunken officeparty posted:I play a lot of Dota which doesn't even have the $5 barrier to making a new account and yeah people smurf but like it's not that huge of an issue? The detection algorithm there is super good and if you dominate on an account it will (invisibily) detect you within 2-5 games. Maybe the CSGO people should wheel their wheelie desks over and ask for help. Highlighted the important part. They profit from both smurfs and cheaters, so they're not their top priority. There's a reason CSGO is one of the top sellers every Steam sale.
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I've got 3 smurfs in the low ranks for when I'm either tired, drunk, or lower level friends, but I'm not going to get any more of them. I barely have enough time to play on my main these days.
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A TURGID FATSO posted:I've got 3 smurfs in the low ranks for when I'm either tired, drunk, or lower level friends, but I'm not going to get any more of them. I barely have enough time to play on my main these days. Same Main for when I'm tired, secondary for when I'm drunk, smurf for my friends
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drunken officeparty posted:I play a lot of Dota which doesn't even have the $5 barrier to making a new account and yeah people smurf but like it's not that huge of an issue? The detection algorithm there is super good and if you dominate on an account it will (invisibily) detect you within 2-5 games. Maybe the CSGO people should wheel their wheelie desks over and ask for help. Doota takes way fewer hours to become competent at, so smurfs don't matter as much as in CS. When it takes ~500 hours to be even somewhat competent at CS, someone just starting the game will be absolutely schooled by a veteran and have no fun. Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Famethrowa posted:Doota takes way fewer hours to become competent at, so smurfs don't matter as much as in CS. Not really. If you're smurfing you can basically solo every match with any hero no problem through sheer farming efficiency. Nevermind what happens if you pick a real 1vs9 hero like Zeus or Slark. Yeah execution is harder in CS but smurfs are huge in Dota too. It's just that smurfing in Dota is a major pain, unlike CS.
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